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Dr. Carolyn Walcott
Postgraduate Coordinator.
Centre for Communication Studies
Email
carolyn.walcott@uog.edu.gy

Dr. Carolyn Walcott is a communication and media specialist with a diverse background in journalism, international communication and development. She received her undergraduate degree in Communication and Graduate Diploma in International Studies at the University of Guyana. She completed her M.A. in Communication and Development at Ohio University and her Ph.D. in Communication at Georgia State University. In 2007, she transitioned from mainstream media to the academy and has since utilized her expertise to shape her pedagogy both in Guyana and the US across several courses. These include Introductory and Applied Communications Research; Intercultural Communication, Persuasion and Ethics, Public Speaking, Media & Culture, and Communication Law, Ethics and Diversity. 

Throughout her industry and academic career, Dr. Walcott has engaged mainstream, corporate, Caribbean regional, and international establishments to produce media products, design communication strategies, and facilitate training interventions. Her service to the academy and wider community includes curriculum review, student mentorship, and manuscript and journal reviews for organizations such as the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), USA. She is currently the editor of the AEJMC’s Commission on the Status of Minorities newsletter, The Standard, and Regional Coordinator of the International Communication Division of AEJMC. At the same time, she coordinates UG’s newly established Masters in Communication Studies.

Dr. Walcott considers being an educator as one of humanity’s highest callings as it embodies heart and art while facilitating scientific and applied research to investigate and critique social phenomena to create change in society. Her research agenda resides at the intersection of media pedagogy, political rhetoric, identity and migration. You can find her most recent publications in Gondwe, G. & Walcott, C. (2024). Victims or villains? How editorial cartoons depict the 2023 Israel – Palestine war. Online Media and Global Communication. https://doi.org/10.1515/omgc-2023-0061; Walcott, C. B., Chambers, M. (2022). Technological and Pedagogical Challenges, responses and transitions: Comparing US and Caribbean College professors teaching media studies online during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Communication Research Journal, 57(1), 2-18; and Walcott, C. (2021). Convergences of Southern Identity and the Global South in Reconstructing Southern Rhetoric Chapter 10 (2021), Oxford Mississippi Press.

Academic papers

Walcott, C. 2020. DISSERTATION: "Contested Patrimony: A Thematic Analysis of Guyana’s Newspaper Framing of Oil Discoveries, Journalistic Challenges Navigating the Sector and Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Media Representation." Dissertation housed by Scholarworks at Georgia State University

Publications

  1. Walcott, C. 2022. Technological and Pedagogical Challenges, responses and transitions: Comparing US and Caribbean College professors teaching media studies online during the COVID-19 pandemic. AEJMC International Communication Research Journal Vol 57 (1): 2-18. Web link / DOI: https://icrj/pub/ 
     
  2. Davis, P., Inabinet, B., Moss, C.L. and Walcott, C. B. 2021. Decolonizing Regions. Michigan State University Press Journal: Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 349-364 Web link / DOI: https://doi.org/10. 14321/rhetpublaffa.24.1-2.0349 
     
  3. Walcott, C. 2019. Consent, Contention and Musical Commentary on Guyana’s 1992 National Elections and the 2018 No Confidence Motion. AEJMC International Communication Research Journal 54 (2) Page #s: 47-62.
     
  4. Walcott, C. 2019. Not my Haiti: western media framing and immigrant renarrating of Haiti. Publisher: University of Curaçao Journal: Positive Interferences: Unsettling resonances in the study of the languages, literatures and cultures of the Greater Caribbean and beyond, Volume 2 Level Page #s: 49-58 Web link / DOI: www.uoc.cw Click here 13 Mar 2019 20 Aug 2019 Published in 2019 volume.
     
  5. Walcott, C. 2018. Memory and Narrative, Capturing Walter Rodney's Legacy: Interview with Professor Ewart Thomas. Groundings: Development, an-Africanism and Critical Theory, 3(1) Level: Second author Page #s: 75-77 Web link / DOI: https://www.scien ceopen.com/hosted-document?doi =10.13169/groudevepanacrit.3.1.0 075
     
  6. Walcott, C. 2014. Wither Caribbean Integration: reasoning the political economy of the Caribbean region post 1945. Creolization and Commonalities: Transgressing Neocolonial Boundaries in the Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Caribbean and the Rest of the African Diaspora. Proceedings of the ECICC, Aruba 2013. Volume 2 Page #s: 185-191
     
  7. Walcott, C. 2021. Convergences of Southern Identity and the Global South. In the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Reconstructing Southern Rhetoric. Oxford: University Press of Mississippi Chapter 12
     
  8. Onyebadi UT, Bland D, Howard H, Walcott C. Issues in Academic Leadership: Narratives of Personal Experiences of Diaspora Administrators. In Multidisciplinary Issues Surrounding African Diasporas 2020 (pp. 220-244). IGI Global.

Conference Proceedings

  1. Walcott, C. 2023. A Caring Pedagogy and the Global Pandemic-Why Faculty Inclusion Matters. 26th Annual Conference of the Americas Location: University of Georgia (UGA), Athens, GA
     
  2. Walcott, C. 2022. Screen Time, Fatigue and Technological Challenges: Pedagogical Experiences of US and Caribbean College Professors Teaching Online During the COVID-19 Pandemic .  25th Annual Conference on the Americas Location: Virtual. No. of Pages: 1
     
  3. Walcott, C. 2022. Resilience through Resistance: Regionalism and Reconstructing Southern Rhetoric. 92nd Annual Convention Southern States Communication Association, Greenville, South Carolina No. of Pages: 1
     
  4. Walcott, C. 2022. Festival City and Carifesta '72: The People who Came Conference: The Inaugural Caribbean Festival of Arts as Prism: 20th Century Festivals in the Multilingual Caribbean Location: Virtual
     
  5. Walcott, C. 2021 "Contested Patrimony: A Thematic Analysis of Guyana’s Newspaper Framing of Oil Discoveries, Journalistic Challenges Navigating the Sector and Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Media Representation". 24th annual Conference of the Americas. The Americas Council. University of North Georgia, USA. No. of Pages: 25 
     
  6. Walcott, C. 2020. Public and Private Newspaper Framing of Oil Discovery in Guyana.23rd Annual Conference of the Americas. The Americas Council. : University of North Georgia, USA No. of Pages: 30
     
  7. Walcott, C. 2019. Consent, Contention and Musical Commentary on Guyana’s 1992 National Elections and the 2018 No Confidence Motion Conference. 102nd Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Toronto, Canada. No. of Pages: 25
     
  8. Walcott, C. 2019. Trump’s Populist Rhetoric and Nationalist Mission to Make America Great Again. 89th Conference of the Southern States Communication Association (SSCA) Location: Montgomery, Alabama. No. of Pages: 35
     
  9. Walcott, C. 2019. Navigating Blackness, Gender and Nationality in the Professorate. 89th Conference of the Southern States Communication Association Location: Montgomery, Alabama No. of Pages: 25
     
  10. Walcott, C. 2018. Not Made in America: Capturing Nationality and Identity through African and Caribbean Camera Lenses. National Council for Black Studies, Atlanta, Georgia No. of Pages: 18
     
  11. Walcott, C and Emeka Umejei. 2018. Global Television Possibilities: When Guyana Meets US Appeals. Paper presented at poster presentation, August 7th, 2018, 101 Conference of the Association For Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, DC
     
  12. Walcott, C. 201 8. Global Television Possibilities: When Guyana Meets US Appeals. 101st Annual Conference of the AEJMC Washington, DC. No. of Pages: 30
     
  13. Walcott, C. 2018. Not Made in America: Capturing Nationality and Identity through African and Caribbean Camera Lenses Conference. 50th Conference of the National Council for Black Studies. Atlanta, Georgia No. of Pages: 25